Cloning and expression analysis of testis-specific cyclic 3',5'- adenosine monophosphate-responsive element modulator activators in the nonhuman primate (Macaca fascicularis): Comparison with other primate and rodent species

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1344-1351

  Behr, R ^a   Hunt, N ^b   Ivell, R ^b   Wessels, J ^a,b   Weinbauer, G F ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MARMOSET; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SPERMATID; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034050663     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod62.5.1344     Document Type: Article

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